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Com Truise & Clark At Forefront of Breaking Stigma of Electronic Music
Aria Silva-Espinosa
May 22, 2017
Electronic music often carries a heavy stigma for being repetitive or unoriginal. Unfortunately, many artists get lumped into the broad category of ‘EDM’ thus rendering their art unpalatable or unapproachable for a significant portion of music enthusiasts. What people fail to recognize is that, just as electric guitar is central
Me First & The Gimme Gimmes Janky Smooth Sessions w/ Spike Slawson
Dave Unbuckled
May 20, 2017
7 days until day 1 of Punk Rock Bowling 2017… Last Saturday, May 13th, I sat down with the not-so-soft-spoken Spike Slawson, of Me First & the Gimme Gimmes, at the Fonda Theater before their Los Angeles appearance of their Greatest Hits Tour. We discussed his punk rock super hero
Fishbone at The Echoplex: The Royal Treatment for Chim Chim
Janky Smooth Central Command
May 19, 2017
Saturday night at the Echoplex started off with the Uber driver dropping us off in front of The Echo, where we waited outside for 2 minutes before we realized it was the wrong place. So we run across the street down some filthy stairs around a corner and now we
Le Butcherettes Leave A Pint of Blood On Stage at Alex’s Bar in Long Beach
Aria Silva-Espinosa
May 18, 2017
Mex-American punk trio Le Butcherettes are sheer intensity personified onstage. On a Wednesday night at Alex’s Bar in Long Beach, the crowd sizzled anxiously under the ominous glow of the shadow-casting red lights.The entire venue has been arranged to allow for maximum capacity, standing room only. Photographers clamored on top
Take This: Win 2 Tix To See Pallbearer at The Echoplex on 5/18
Danny Baraz
May 16, 2017
Pallbearer dropped a MASSIVE 3rd doom metal album this past March and they are showing why it’s perfect timing for Metal to make a comeback- right here, right now. With the hard rock resurgence the past couple years, the endless stream of pop punk and garage rock proliferating out of
Thurston Moore: Genre Be Damned When You’re An Icon
Rob Shepyer
May 16, 2017
Before I go into what happened when Thurston Moore graced the Teragram Ballroom’s stage on Saturday May 12th, I need to paint the picture of what happened immediately after. Smoking a cigarette and leaning against a neighboring liquor mart, I saw an old college friend of mine, a bit of
Take This: Win 2 Tix To See Ho99o9 at The Echo on Friday 5/19
Janky Smooth Central Command
May 15, 2017
If we cover even just one more Ho99o9 live show in the pages of Janky Smooth, our readers might start to think that we are nothing but biased groupies. But we don’t care about that as much as being overly redundant since this publication makes no bones about the fact
The Secret Journal Of A Pizza Spy at Coachella 2017
Dave Unbuckled
May 10, 2017
Thursday Thoughts On The Night Before Weekend 2 of Coachella 2017 Starts The drive to Indio from LAX was supposed to take three hours & forty seven minutes, but it would be a lot longer than that before we would be out of the car and setting up our tent.
Take This: Win 2 Tickets To See the mighty FISHBONE at The Echoplex
Janky Smooth Central Command
May 9, 2017
It is the position of Janky Smooth that Fishbone is the greatest live band of the past 3 decades. In any measurable way, Fishbone plays, connects with their audience, records their material and of most importance recently, ages better than any band that typically has people slam dancing to their
Weedeater and The Obsessed at The Regent: Blaze It Up, Fool
Rob Shepyer
May 6, 2017
Doom metal is on such a comeback that I might have to become a pothead again. Until a few months ago, I had the hunch that thrash was going to have a second coming and be the biggest rage in underground metal, but at a time when Saint Vitus and
